Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides ... Pando — Latin for "I spread" — is the largest known tree on Earth and the heaviest living organism on record.

Populus tremuloides, the quaking aspen of the North American continent, stands as one of the most easily recognized, most beautiful and most admired of all tree species. In order to help ...

A single organism. The mass of all the genetically identical trees weighs around 6,000 tons, which makes it, in terms of mass, the largest living thing on Earth. The Pando is protected by the US ...

Weighing 13 million pounds, Pando is one of the world’s largest living organisms ... and that holds true for Pando and aspen itself. Aspen trees are easily infected with a whole bunch of ...